Why the cost of mitigating climate change can’t be boiled down to one right number, despite some economists’ best attempts

Precise predictions raise the risk of conveying too much certainty in a constantly changing world

Summers may last 6 months, winters only 2: Recent study

Between 1952 and 2011, summer duration increased to 95 from 78 days. In winters, it decreased to 73 from 76 days

EU, first climate neutral continent by 2050, needs 60% reduction in emissions by 2030

Negotiations need to identify concrete hooks to bring every country to the table and agree on the target collectively

Mortgaging our ecological future

A climate change narrative lost in rhetoric and catchy metaphors

How dust storms are adding to pollution woes of north India

Such storms lead to increase in surface ozone, particulate matter as well as harmful greenhouse gases

Hothouse Earth: our planet has been here before – here's what it looked like

The first Hothouse state last occurred 125,000 years ago, and the risk of a new one was raised by a study recently 

Long live Freddy: Cyclone which travelled across Indian Ocean, has survived for 32 days courtesy climate change

Warming due to human-induced greenhouse gases is absorbed by the oceans, increasing their heat content; this helps strengthen cyclones

More children believe in climate emergency than adults in G20 countries, UNDP survey finds

Conservation of forest land and transition to renewable sources of energy were among policies that received the most approval

Human activities do cause extreme precipitation events, says UCLA study

Before the study, research had been conducted regionally; but the UCLA research team used machine learning to create a global data set

Mandatory building energy code needed by 2030, says UN report

The building sector’s energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions rose by 7% since 2010, the report said

Methane emission to rise 13% by 2030 without global pledge, claims Kerry

India, not a part of the pledge, is among top 5 methane emitters globally

Cost of climate action: Africa needs $2.8 trillion from 2020-2030 to meet goals, says report 

About 90% climate finance is likely to be external

Countries must up climate ambitions to achieve Paris commitments: Experts

The world is paced for a 3°C rise, according to the current nationally determined contributions 

Simulation helps enhance photosynthesis

Mumbai gears up for green survey

Why US-China climate deal is neither ‘historic’ nor ‘ambitious’

It will take the world towards a catastrophic beyond 4°C temperature increase pathway

Hot century ahead: India can’t beat the heat even if global warming is capped at 2°C

Uttar Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat to experience extremely hot days (over 51°C) every year through 2100

Green coal: Can it tackle twin challenges of reducing emission, waste management?

NTPC has recently opened a green coal manufacturing plant in Varanasi; plants are planned in Madurai and Bhopal as well

How surging oil prices threaten world’s climate goals

Over half carbon dioxide emitted from fussil fuel burning in 2020 was from oil, natural gas

Europe bans disposal of decommissioned wind turbine blades in landfills: A step towards life cycle sustainability

Wind turbines are an excellent source of clean power; but how will they be sustainable if they end up in a landfill?

Third of Amazon rainforest lost or degraded: Report

Climate change is a growing global concern that jeopardises the Amazon’s biodiversity

More livestock, more carbon dioxide, less ice: The world’s climate change progress since 2019 is (mostly) bad news

Especially troubling is the unprecedented surge in climate-related disasters since 2019

Act now : How climate action in this decade can prevent catastrophic global warming later

There is scientific consensus that rapid and deep cuts to emissions in this decade, and not later, will avoid scenarios of uncontrollable warming …

World to breach 1.5°C threshold by 2027-2042: Study

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had estimated global warming threshold will cross between 2020 and 2052 

Factsheet: Inclusion of aviation

In 2008, the EU decided to extend the scope of its Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions trading scheme (EU ETS) to include emissions from the aviation